Chapters 37-40 Summary

The Thalassa people have braced the Water Pit, trying to make it safe to work in. Hatch is watching the work in the pit. Isobel approaches Malin and tells him that they have found the remains of Johnny. She leads him to the place where he looks at the skeleton. Johnny had been killed by one of the traps set by Macallan.

In Chapter Thirty-Eight, Hatch is on the water in the Plain Jane. He selects a spot on the beach and sets up his paints. He has found the closure he was so desperately seeking and is now ready to move on with his life. Isobel appears in a launch and joins him on shore. He paints as they talk. She tells him that Neidelman is working in the pit. He is now in such a hurry that he isn't...